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ākengokengo

1. (location) tomorrow.

Waiho te tapahi i te karaihe mō ākengokengo - ahakoa e ua ana ināianei, aoake ka paki (PK 2008:13). / Leave the mowing of the grass for tomorrow - although it's raining now, it'll be fine tomorrow.

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āpōpō ka tīkaro ō whatu ki Mahurangi

1. eat up for there may be no food tomorrow - an idiom said to a child who hasn't eaten her/his food. It suggests that there may be no food tomorrow in the hope that the child realises he/she must eat.

Pare: Ka rua rā pea tāua e haere ana, kātahi anō ka tae. Anei tā tāua parāoa hei ō haere mā tāua. Rangi: Hei aha māku tō parāoa maroke nā. Whāngaihia atu ki tō hōiho. Pare: E kī! Āpōpō ka tīkoro ō whatu ki Mahurangi (HKK 1999:158). / Pare: We will be travelling for about two days before we arrive. Here is our bread as our food for the journey. Rangi: Your dry bread is not for me. Feed it to your horse. Pare: You don't say! You'd better eat up for there may be no food tomorrow.

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ātahirā

1. (location) day after tomorrow.

Ko āpōpō ka hoki mātou, ko ātahirā ka hoki mai ki te mahi i Kōpikopiko, i te mea kua oti anō tēnei rori te mahi (TWMNT 14/8/1872:101). / Tomorrow we return and the day after tomorrow we return from Kōpikopiko to the job because the work on this road has been completed.

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karehā

1. (location) the day before yesterday, the day after tomorrow - depending on context.

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tahirā

1. (location) the day after tomorrow - when used with ā, i.e. ātahirā.

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2. (location) the day before yesterday - when used with ina or nōna, i.e. nōnatahirā and inatahirā.

aoinaake

1. (location) next day, the following day, tomorrow - this is an adverb of time and can be used following a verbal marker, usually ka, as in the first example below, or stand alone as in the second example.

Ka aoinaake, ka haere te hui (HM 2/2009:10). / Next day the conference began.
Aoinaake ka tae mai ngā pirihimana. / The next day the policemen arrived.

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Synonyms: ao ake i te rā, aonga ake, auina ake, auināke, ao ake, auinaake, i te aonga ake, aoake

āpōpō

1. (location) tomorrow, at sometime in the future, soon.

Kei te āta āngia haeretia e te Pākehā, āpōpō ake nei piri mai ana i ngā pari, i runga rānei i ngā keokeonga o ngā maunga (TTT 1/3/1930:1992). / We are slowly being driven out by the Pākehā and soon will be clinging to the cliffs or on the peaks of the mountains.

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hei āpōpō

1. (interjection) see you tomorrow.

Hei āpōpō tāua kite ai i a tāua. We'll see each other tomorrow. /

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